ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
Branching principles of animal and plant networks identified by combining extensive data, machine learning and modelling.
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- Flow similarity model characterizes hydraulic-mechanical trade-offs driving size-dependent allometric scaling across branch orders in oak trees.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Information flow drives localized morphological differences across neuronal and glial cell types.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Scaling in branch thickness and the fractal aesthetic of trees.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Mapping the blood vasculature in an intact human kidney using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Neuronal branching is increasingly asymmetric near synapses, potentially enabling plasticity while minimizing energy dissipation and conduction time.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Spatial and Texture Analysis of Root System distribution with Earth mover's Distance (STARSEED).Plant methods · 2023Article
- Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from 'Newtonian' to 'Darwinian' approaches.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Branching in vascular networks and in overall organismic form is one of the most common and ancient features of multicellular plants, fungi and animals. By combining machine-learning techniques with new theory that relates vascular form to metabolic function, we enable novel classification of diverse branching networks-mouse lung, human head and torso, angiosperm and gymnosperm plants. We find that ratios of limb radii-which dictate essential biologic functions related to resource transport and supply-are best at distinguishing branching networks. We also show how variation in vascular and branching geometry persists despite observing a convergent relationship across organisms for how metabolic rate depends on body mass.
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